List of division champions in Major League Baseball
This is a list of division champions (since 1969 ) and wild-card winners (since 1994 ) in Major League Baseball .
Division champions
indicates the winner of the World Series .
Four-division alignment (1969–1993)
Team names link to the season in which each team played
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series. Oakland and New York won the 1981 American League Division Series while Los Angeles and Montreal won the 1981 National League Division Series .[ 1]
Six-division alignment (1994–present)
Team names link to the season in which each team played
Wild card winners
indicates the winner of the World Series .
One Wild Card (1995–2011)
Team names link to the season in which each team played
Two Wild Cards (2012–2019, 2021)
Winner of the Wild Card Game in bold
† For the 2020 season, the postseason consisted of eight teams per league; the top two teams in each division and two wild card teams from among the remaining teams.
Three Wild Cards (2022–present)
Winner of the Wild Card Series in bold
See also
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